Continued from here: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1984037
Some posts from the last thread:
Some posts from the last thread:
Can anyone think of analogous situation where a team traded a young #1 C with "issues"?
I can think of Thorton and Seguin both out of Boston.
In both situations the acquiring team would redo the trade 100 out of 100 times.
Is there an analogous trade that DIDN'T work out for the acquirey?
Not sure if it applies, and it's interesting that it's the Jackets, but Carter wasn't that old when they traded a whole lot of value (Voracek and a 1st (Couts) for him.
He pouted his way out of Columbus and while they turned him into JJ and a 1st, I think the Jackets would probably prefer Voracek and Couts instead.
Center? Not sure.
Forward, exhibit A: Phil Kessel. Not sure if the Leafs would do that again. Think they would take Seguin and Hamilton.
Edit: would ROR be considered a #1 C? Likely not. Though he's paid like one. Kyle Turris? Not a #1 at time of trade. There's very very few if any #1 C's traded until they age.
Eric Lindros? Wasn't ever going to play for Nordiques.
Is the kessel deal analogous? I don't think anyone saw that toronto team bottoming out that hard, but i guess that's not bad.
i'd say statically ROR is probably a 1c. I don't think you can say that was a bad deal for buffalo yet.
Turris: think of the what ottawa gave up for turris, absolutely they do that trade again and again.
Lindros: not really analogous and also a long long long long time ago, lets try to keep it to at least a relatively modern era.
ill say our best bets for a 1c is staal, we have the prospects to give and would not potentially impact our team unless that prospect is jesus
This has been touched on later on in this thread but if we traded Engstrom we would need a LHD coming back. Unless one of our RHD switches sides we would have Stuart as our number 1 LHD.